The Moscow hospital in the first half of the XVIII century: the beginning of the glorious path

The article highlights the formation of the Moscow Hospital, founded by the Decree of Peter I in 1706 in Lefortovo, and its activities in the first half of the XVIII century as a clinical institution, where from the first days the treatment of patients took place together with the training of the first Russian doctors – students of the Moscow Medical and Surgical School. The article tells about the first chief doctor and director of the Hospital School — Nikolai Bidloo — the author of the national “Instructio de chirurgia in theatro anatomico”, and his followers who devoted their lives to preserving the health of the Russian army.